Analysis

From February 24th to 27th at Mobile World Congress 2020, Barcelona, Deep Tech EU will showcase large-scale research initiatives of the European Commission. The Deep Tech EU space, supported by GSMA and the EU, will highlight the latest technologies developed by the Graphene Flagship, the Human Brain Project, the Quantum Flagship, and host the official presentation to the public of the new Battery 2030+ initiative.

The UK Government is expected to finally decide whether to allow Huawei infrastructure in its 5G network tomorrow. However, the public is divided on whether the Chinese tech giant should be trusted, according to a poll by leading data and analytics company GlobalData.

The installed photovoltaic capacity is growing rapidly worldwide. Photovoltaic systems with a total output of around 600GW now supply clean and cost-effective electricity – replacing around 600 medium-sized coal-fired power plants. SMA Solar Technology (SMA) and Infineon Technologies have supported this growth trend with the latest generation of innovative silicon carbide (SiC)-based solar inverters. 

With a turnover of 40 million Euros, GÖPEL electronic has achieved a sales record in the past fiscal year 2019. The strong previous year was exceeded by 2% points, and the number of employees was also increased.

Engineers are being encouraged to get build a better future with IoT by Avnet design community element14, Cypress Semiconductor and Amazon Web Services. The companies have teamed up to launch The “Connected Cloud” design challenge which aims to foster the community’s creativity by applying innovative IoT solutions to anything in their world that needs improving.

RS Components (RS) has teamed up with Maxim Integrated, STMicroelectronics and TE Connectivity to offer one lucky member of its DesignSpark engineering platform, the chance to win an exclusive bundle of products worth more than £2,500.

According to new research, rapid upsurge in adoption of absolute optical encoders in robotics is driving the growth of optical encoder market. Between 2019 and 2029, the global sales of optical encoders are projected for a robust hike at around nine percent CAGR, indicates a new research study. 

Innovation and design consultancy Plextek has joined the Arm Pelion and Mbed Partner Ecosystem, a growing group of embedded and cloud companies, component manufacturers, system integrators and OEMs committed to driving innovation in IoT.

The trend towards compute-intensive gateways and edge devices is driving the integration of traditional deterministic control applications with additional embedded processing capabilities needed for smart and secure connected systems. In response, Microchip Technology has announced the Early Access Programme (EAP) for the PolarFire System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA.

Viavi Solutions had announced that Sunny Xinyang Optics, a subsidiary of Sunny Optical Technology, a manufacturer of integrated optical components and products based in China, has agreed to a licensing arrangement for certain use of VIAVI’s patent-protected low angle shift (LAS) filters used in the field of three-dimensional (3D) sensing technology.